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After a one-year delay due to COVID-19 the first radio stations ofthe Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G) have been deployed in the ice of Greenland near Summit Station. RNO-G will target neutrinos above 10 PeV, searching for a continuation of the astrophysical neutrino flux as detected by IceCube and potentially discover cosmogenic neutrino at EeV […]

Astronet (the consortium of European funding agencies, established for the purpose of providing advice on long-term planning and development of European Astronomy) continues to develop a new Science Vision & Infrastructure Roadmap, in a single document with an outlook for the next 20 years. A delivery date to European funding agencies of mid-2021 is anticipated.

The JENAS2019 event at Orsay allowed astroparticle, nuclear and particle physics researchers to sniffle into each other’s activities. Being informed by the presentations and discussions and with a view to further explore topical synergies between the disciplines, a call for Expression of Interest (EoIs) was submitted by the then Chairs (Teresa Montaruli, APPEC; Jorgen D’Hondt,

On March 13, 2021, in the middle of the installation campaign (from February 17 till April 4), the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation visited the site of the neutrino telescope to officially launch the detector and to sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Science and Higher Education

On 1 April the APPEC General Assembly came together online for their first meeting in this year. The new Chair Andreas Haungs announced some changes in personnel at the beginning of the session: Antoine Kouchner, director of the APC laboratory, was endorsed as Co-Chair of the General Assembly. He is since many years closely related

During a week-long sea campaign, 8-14 April 2021, the seafloor infrastructure offshore Sicily has been successfully upgraded. In addition, five new detection units of the kilometre cube neutrino telescope KM3NeT/ARCA have been connected and are operational. Located in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 3500 m, about 80 km offshore Capo Passero, Sicily, the

ECFA currently organises the development of a Detector R&D roadmap, which is organised in 9 Task Forces, one of them beeing on Training. The ECFA early career researcher panel is currently collecting input from early career researchers on opportunities for training on instruemental related tasks. Also early career researchers from the astroparticle physics community are

On December 8, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to the speed of light carrying 6.3 petaelectronvolts (PeV) of energy. Deep inside the ice sheet at the South Pole, it smashed into an electron and produced a particle that quickly decayed into a shower of

The Pierre Auger Collaboration is releasing 10% of the data recorded using the world’s largest cosmic ray detector. These data are being made available publicly with the expectation that they will be used by a wide and diverse community including professional and citizen-scientists and for educational and outreach initiatives. While the Auger Collaboration has released